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I have about cord an a half of wood which would feed the woodstove for a few weeks. It can warm up the house to opening windows in winter level of warm. I keep two 20lb propane tanks around at all times (Now that I have the garage I plan on getting two 100lb tanks). They can feed a proper...

Why would you need them to do anything to prepare your house for this? **** if my local government came to my house saying that they want to help prepare it I would tell them to go away.

You may want to consider brazing. Silver brazing for steel (if it can hold a bicycle together under a 300-pound person it can hold your RC car) and aluminum brazing rods for the aluminum pieces.

You need to define your requirements a tad better. Any machine out there can do thicker than sheet metal. How thick are you talking about?

5HP is adequate for a hobby shop and if your cabinet ends up draining the air faster than the compressor can provide it you go down one size on the nozzle, that should fix it.

If you can't modify your ceiling can you dig down? As in cut your slab on the parking space and recast 6" lower? If gaining that extra space is that important to you something will have to be modified.

People here will tell you that it will never work, and yet here un Alaska I have been to two toasty shop heated with one. We do insulate or slabs and put angled insulation away from the slab. Did you insulate? The fly in your ointment is your desire for intermittent heat, radiant doesn't work...

Drywall is a whole lot cheaper and I have heard people have use it successfully as wall covering :lol_hitti

Check the auto parts stores. They have these glue-on heaters for the oil pan in the cars to keep them warm at night. Up here in Alaska you could say most cars are hybrids, just about all of them have a household plug sticking through the front grill :lol_hitti

How much pipe is sticking out of the slab? You could install pipe heaters. The slab itself should take a while to chill that much as it would change temperature with the soil, a lot slower than the air.

Because you have never built a chicken coop before, where the chickens are the source of all the water. But that's ok. When insulation fails to fix your problem, you get dripping water, mold, and the high carbon monoxide make your chickens unhappy to the point of not producing, remember to fix...

Here's a cute story from Alaska. The horse place where I get my manure has chicken. The owner build them a really nice insulated chicken coop but the dumb birds still prefer to sleep on the rafters of the hay barn. Some years it can get to -20f and apparently the birds will be up there. He...

In case you missed it the first time: insulation has 0 bearing on condensation. Don't take my word for it, google it up. The very first hit had this:

portably or just removable? Portably implies that you want to be able to move it to another location and be able to use it there. Cut the cement with a cement saw, rent one if you don't have one. Pour a block 10 inches deep and sink in 5/8 J hooks. You are not going to break those loose.

Screw your OCD, fill the space with Bondo. Next time you OCD sees it it will think twice before throwing a hissy fit over something trivial :D

Often there is a direct correlation between patience and the price you get stuff for on the used market. I got the walls and roof of my garage erected last year, this year is to work on windows, doors, and God willing some insulation and heating (it was -11f yesterday morning...). Since the...

The best bang for the buck is usually used. If your location was listed I could have done a quick search on CL, Offerup, FB Marketplace, and heck even eBay local sales.

The 8 railroad ties I used gave me a surface of 60 square feet, close to 3 times the load bearing capacity of your cement pads. If that foundation ever needs to get adjusted all I do is bottle jack the container, pull the tie, spread some gravel, put things back together. If I change my mind and...

Is this the part where I bring up the eternal debate between gas and charcoal :D Nice clean job. Once spring is here I need to get busy with a few welding protects. Yesterday morning it was -11f, a tad chilly for comfort.

Nothing all that innovative here. I have bent plenty of wrenches so they reach somewhere, made them skinnier or narrower for the same purpose, bent or splice or cut pliers to grip something, modified plenty a screwdriver bit for a perfect fit, made scratch owls out of some, center punches it of...